Case Study: Sky Italia achieves 650% faster video uploads and optimized content workflow with Akamai Technologies' Aspera-enabled NetStorage

Sky Italia improves online experience by accelerating video content upload by 650% with Akamai's new high-speed file upload solution

Sky Italia, the leading Italian pay-TV operator serving millions of viewers with more than 170 channels and a 2,500-title on-demand library, faced growing demand from Sky Go and Sky On Demand that its legacy FTP uploads to Akamai NetStorage could not sustain. Slow uploads delayed time-to-market for new titles, strained content workflows and threatened customer satisfaction as mobile and on-demand usage surged.

Akamai integrated Aspera’s high‑speed file transfer with its NetStorage platform, boosting upload throughput from about 40 Mbps to 300 Mbps (up to a 650% increase), simplifying the content-management workflow and enabling faster, more frequent content updates. The result: a larger, continuously updated library, improved quality of service, support for mobile viewing with 100% availability, and a faster time-to-market for new content.

Sky Italia

Vincenzo Roggio

Distribution Platform Design & Development Engineer